“The U”

The University of Miami football team may have played their last regular season game over a week ago but the school, the team and its history were front and center on Thursday night at The Colony theatre in Miami Beach.

For the second time in as many years, South Florida filmmaker Billy Corben will once again have a feature on ESPN. After first tackling the University of Miami football’s rise to fame, Corben is this time looking at how pro athletes spend millions only to end up “Broke.”

Kellen Winslow II was a dominant tight end at the University of Miami and wound up being picked with the sixth pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. But since then, the man who once described himself as “a soldier” has played for five NFL teams and after being released by the New England Patriots is now unemployed in 2012.